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Sanjay Gandhi

1946 - 1980

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Sanjay Gandhi (14 December 1946 – 23 June 1980) was an Indian politician and the younger son of Indira Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi. He was a member of parliament, Lok Sabha and the Nehru–Gandhi family. During his lifetime, he was widely expected to succeed his mother as head of the Indian National Congress and Prime Minister of India, but following his early death in a plane crash, his elder brother Rajiv became their mother's political heir and succeeded her as Prime Minister of India and President of the party after her assassination. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sanjay Gandhi has received more than 6,078,603 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Sanjay Gandhi is the 12,616th most popular politician (down from 11,896th in 2019), the 475th most popular biography from India (down from 437th in 2019) and the 149th most popular Indian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 12,616 out of 15,577Before him are Anand Panyarachun, Józef Bilczewski, Mahmud Tarzi, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, Benjamin Sheares, and Henry Knox. After him are Stefan Yanev, Froyla Tzalam, Eucratides II, Pierluigi Martini, Lyudmila Pakhomova, and Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 384Before him are Vazgen Manukyan, Joseph Sifakis, John Barnard, Chuck Hagel, Gram Parsons, and Daouda Malam Wanké. After him are Lyudmila Pakhomova, Björn Granath, Álvaro Arzú, Ichiro Hosotani, María Baxa, and Tim Pigott-Smith. Among people deceased in 1980, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 174Before him are Simonne Mathieu, André Parrot, Arend Heyting, George Pal, Joseph Banks Rhine, and Vasja Pirc. After him are Rafael Paasio, Petar Trifunović, Philip Guston, Wilhelmina Cooper, Andrija Anković, and C. P. Snow.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 475 out of 1,493Before him are Muhammad Azam Shah (1653), Azim Premji (1945), Verghese Kurien (1921), H. D. Deve Gowda (1933), Rajendra K. Pachauri (1940), and Percy Hobart (1885). After him are Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (1858), Sharmila Tagore (1944), Kamini Roy (1864), Vyjayanthimala Bali (1936), Robert Swinhoe (1836), and Phoolan Devi (1963).

Among POLITICIANS In India

Among politicians born in India, Sanjay Gandhi ranks 149Before him are Bhagwan Das (1869), Balaji Baji Rao (1720), Venkaiah Naidu (1949), Shuja-ud-Daula (1732), Muhammad Azam Shah (1653), and H. D. Deve Gowda (1933). After him are Phoolan Devi (1963), Fatima Jinnah (1893), Islam Shah Suri (1510), Sushma Swaraj (1952), Jaipal Singh Munda (1903), and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat (1923).